Zac Affleck discovered a method to poke enjoyable at “cousin” Ben Affleck‘s divorce from Jennifer Lopez after the actor’s iconic Dunkin’ Donuts advert with Jen Affleck.
After the industrial with Zac’s spouse was launched on Monday, September 15, he replied within the feedback part about Jen, 26, and Ben’s banter, writing through Instagram, “One thing about Jens and Bens they’ll by no means get alongside.”
Zac’s joke got here one yr after Lopez, 56, filed to finish her marriage to Ben, 53. The previous couple tied the knot in July 2022 after rekindling their romance — they have been beforehand engaged from 2002 to 2004. Lopez filed for divorce two years later in August 2024.
“She was very in love with Ben, however love isn’t sufficient typically,” a supply instructed Us Weekly about Lopez on the time. “Issues labored out for the very best and the way they have been presupposed to.”
Earlier this yr, Ben broke his silence on the high-profile break up when requested by GQ why he selected to be concerned in Lopez’s 2024 documentary, The Biggest Love Story By no means Informed. The movie was a companion piece to her 2024 visible album, This Is Me … Now, and included scenes the place Ben mentioned their relationship.
“There’s an inclination to take a look at breakups and wish to determine root causes or one thing. However truthfully … the reality is far more quotidian than in all probability folks would imagine or could be fascinating,” he defined in March. “There’s no scandal, no cleaning soap opera, no intrigue [about our divorce]. The reality is, while you discuss to any person, ‘Hey, what occurred?’ Nicely, there is no such thing as a, ‘That is what occurred.’”
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Ben concluded: “It’s only a story about folks making an attempt to determine their lives and relationships in ways in which all of us kind of usually do.”
Ben has since shifted his focus to filming an advert with Jen after she and Zac, 29 claimed they have been associated to the director. Jen beforehand claimed on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives that Zac was associated to Ben and Casey Affleck — particularly that Zac’s dad, David Affleck, is second cousins with the well-known actors.
Zac, nevertheless, admitted in season 2 that he has “no concept” if he’s truly associated to Ben and that all of it started as “a operating joke” in his household.
Courtesy of Jen Affleck/Instagram Viewers have a number of opinions about Jen Affleck and Zac Affleck‘s marriage after watching their relationship play out on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. The couple began relationship in 2018 and bought married one yr later. After increasing their household twice, Jen and Zac joined the solid of Hulu’s […]
“It’s by no means been one thing critical,” he defined in a March episode. “And so, when Jen began telling people who, I did inform her, ‘I don’t assume you need to say that anymore. I believe that’s in all probability gonna backfire.’”
Zac particularly requested Jen to cease spreading the rumor round. “That’s not true,” he instructed her. “I’ve heard that as a joke. Nobody’s ever claimed to have some sort of relationship with him moreover you.”
Jen bringing the hypothesis up finally led to her and Zac assembly Ben.
“I’m positive his crew instructed him about [the show], and he’s like, ‘Who the heck is she? I don’t know who that is.’ However hey, it led me to doing a industrial with him so I’m pleased,” she instructed Us earlier this month. “It was a full-on shoot. I had an entire script. It was my first performing gig, truthfully. I didn’t know my first performing gig could be with an Oscar-winning actor.”
